Thermometer type

I had a look in my parents' home pharmacy and found two glass thermometers!

One of them was a bit like this one, with different background colors for temperatures above and below 37°C (considered the normal temperature)

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The other one had just one single background color, like this one

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Both were European style, with a thin probe and a thicker body, and they were used only rectally. Both contain a blue liquid.

I have a faint recollection of using a thermometer with a red liquid, but perhaps it was at grandparents'?

Also a faint recollection that my parents used to have a mercury thermometer. Perhaps it was disposed of as hazardous waste.

Of course, it would be very awkward to ask now!

When taking my rectal temperature or that of other men, or looking at pictures of male rectal temperatures, I prefer only the glass mercury thermometers with stubby or pear-shaped bulbs. And they have to be thin American style rectal thermometers. I am not a fan of Geratherm or other thick European-style thermometers. Those thermometers don't even have rectal type bulbs. In fact, they look like oral thermometers. Digital thermometers don't do it at all for me either.

It has to be a thin rectal thermometer with a silver ball at the end up my ass or another guy's.

I 100% agree with MarkRT.

@MarkRT Indeed. These European thermometers used to be sold for oral, rectal or axillary taking; there were not separate "oral" or "rectal" kinds! I was told to insert the thin part but, to my surprise, some people here mention they had the thick part inserted!

The glass one big time - looks better feels much much better specially when it’s cold

I prefer the traditional, pear shaped bulb, rectal thermometer. The digital, as well as Candy, thermometer, is just an added "Enhancement " to my play.

My GF likes all kinds of thermometers, but really enjoys the feeling of the candy thermometer in her bottom.

I love glass thermometers. That said, when I take my temperature now, a Geratherm thermometer feels a lot like what a glass thermometer felt like as a child, in terms of the size of the thermometer vs the size of my opening as a child.

I prefer digital. It is faster and we can get n with the rest of the exam. I do think it is interesting to compare oral and rectal temps.